I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.